Haunted nature : entanglements of the human and the nonhuman.

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Bibliographic Details
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
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Main Author:
Blazan, Sladja
Series:Palgrave Gothic Ser.
Subjects:
Horror tales, American-History and criticism.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American.
Horror tales, American.
Format: Electronic eBook
Haunted nature : entanglements of the human and the nonhuman.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • Chapter 1: Haunting and Nature: An Introduction
  • Haunting
  • Nature
  • Anthropocene/Capitalocene/Chthulucene and the Ecogothic
  • Trajectory
  • Works Cited
  • Chapter 2: Microgothic: Microbial Aesthetics of Haunted Nature
  • The Origins of the Microgothic
  • "All monstrous, all prodigious things": William Heath's "Monster Soup"
  • "[P]rofoundly vicious, treacherous and malignant": Mark Twain's Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes
  • The Microbiome and Its Epistemological and Aesthetic Challenges in BioArt "And I held it in my hand, the most terrifying of all ills": Anna Dumitriu's The Bacterial Sublime
  • Conclusion: The Persistence of the Microgothic
  • Works Cited
  • Chapter 3: Black Mold, White Extinction: I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, The Haunting of Hill House, "Gray Matter," and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shunned House"
  • Black Mold and Post-Death Existence
  • White Post-Death
  • Climate Crisis, Extinction Fears
  • Black Growth, White Extinction
  • Black Mold, Black Slavery
  • Works Cited Chapter 4: Vegetomorphism: Exploring the Material Within the Aesthetics of the EcoGothic in Stranger Things and Annihilation
  • The Vegetation Belt
  • The Monstrous Root
  • Human Phytographia and Vegetomorphism
  • Indigenous Roots of Chthonic Monsters in Popular Culture
  • Works Cited
  • Chapter 5: An Ecology of Abject Women: Frontier Gothicism and Ecofeminism in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  • Introduction: Frontier Realism, Gothic Symbolism, and Ecological Feminism
  • Frontier Aesthetics and Ecofeminist Politics in We Have Always Lived in the Castle Conclusion: Haunted Natures in the Twenty-First Century
  • Works Cited
  • Chapter 6: Alligators in the Living Room: Terror and Horror in the Capitalocene
  • Introduction
  • (Representing) Capitalocene Violence in the Global North and South
  • Gothic and Horror in the Capitalocene: Crawl
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Chapter 7: Haunted Technonature: Anthropocene Coloniality in Ng Yi-Sheng's Lion City
  • Singapore and Anthropocene Hegemony
  • Uncanny Technonature
  • Singapore, Crisis, and Environmental Management
  • Coloniality and the Capitalocene
  • Haunting the Anthropocene Irrealist Aetiologies
  • Decolonizing Emergency
  • Works Cited
  • Chapter 8: Haunted Nature, Haunted Humans: Intelligent Trees, Gaia, and the Apocalypse Meme
  • Intelligent Trees and Haunted Nature
  • Apocalyptic Endings and Haunted Humans
  • Works Cited
  • Chapter 9: The Global Poltergeist: COVID-19 Hauntings
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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